9:20 → 9:50(30s)
Clerk/roll-call reader (Speaker 2) called the roll, naming senators including Albritton, Barfoot, Beasley, Butler, Coleman, Hovey, Kitchens, Livingston, Price, Sessions, Stewart, Weaver, Williams and Allen; several present responses were recorded. Committee Chair (Speaker 1) confirmed presence before calling the meeting to order.
The Senate Transportation and Energy committee heard two bills: SB205, a modernization of Alabama's one-call damage-prevention law presented by Ross Gunnels of Alabama 811 (including a friendly amendment adding 'marine construction' and maintenance/ROW language), and SB222, an update clarifying that the automated-driving law does not require roadway upgrades and bars oversized/overweight vehicles from autonomous operation. Both measures were approved or given a paper report during the session.
